Posted on 09/05/2014 10:05:08 AM PDT by jazusamo
The IRS's internal auditor distorted the facts surrounding the IRS tea party targeting scandal, leaving Americans with the impression that the tax agency went after conservative groups without also targeting liberal groups, the Senate's top investigative panel said Friday.
Investigators said the IRS did mishandle applications for tax exempt status, including subjecting groups to years-long delays and "poorly coordinated reviews." But the report, written by Democrats who control the chamber, concluded that the IRS's "mismanagement" affected both liberal and conservative groups, clearing the agency of accusations of politically motivated behavior.
"The subcommittee found no evidence that political bias influences the decisions made by IRS personnel," the report concluded. "A review of nearly 800,000 pages of documents and nearly two dozen interviews produced no evidence of political bias influencing IRS decisionmaking about how to process [nonprofit] applications filed by conservative organizations, and no evidence that the IRS singled out conservative groups for harsher treatment than other groups."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Please issue that report.
Nobody will believe it and it will taint the Dems.
Love it!
Cover up!
imagine that- Dems investigate Dems and find they didn’t do anything wrong.
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!
The party of Detroit finds nothing. ROFL.
Aw hell. I just lost 100 dollars. I bet that the Democrats would find other Democrats guilty of attacking non-Democrats!
Condolences on losing the 100 bucks, ida bet with you.
The ump calls SAFE!!
Oh for crying out loud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blame the IG? That man is the ONLY one (J. Russell George) that had any integrity in that office! Unfreakingbelievable. Unless you’re a Dem party hack. I hope IG George has personal protection. I really do.
Does it come with a built-in laugh track and rim-shots, or does the reader have to supply those on his or her own?
Hmmmm..... so all that time the missing emails and such is just smoke screen then.
Now that ‘cleaned up’ emails and blackberry and who knows what turned up, there’s no political motivated bias.
Got it.
It wouldn’t be a surprise if Levin tried to get 0bama to fire him like 0bama fired Gerald Walpin.
The turkey probably knows he can’t get away with it again.
Trying to wrap it up before the next election.
Yeah, that’ll really fly.
Ok Levin, show us Lois Lerner’s emails. Then I will consider reading your report.
5.56mm
Judicial Watch: New Documents Show IRS HQ Control of Tea Party Targeting
A series of letters between Senator Levin (D-MI), chairman of the Subcommittee on Investigations, and top IRS officials throughout 2012 discuss how to target conservative groups the senator claimed were “engaged in political activities.” In response to a Levin March 30 letter citing the “urgency of the issue,” then-Deputy Commissioner Steven Miller assured the senator that IRS regulations were flexible enough to allow IRS agents to “prepare individualized questions and requests” for select 501(c)(4) organizations.
The newly released IRS documents contain several letters and emails revealing an intense effort by Levin and IRS officials to determine what, if any, existing IRS policies could be used to revoke the nonprofit exemptions of active conservative groups and deny exemptions to new applicants. In a July 30, 2012, letter, Levin singles out 12 groups he wants investigated for “political activity.” Of the groups – which include the Club for Growth, Americans for Tax Reform, the 60 Plus Association, and the Susan B. Anthony List – only one, Priorities USA, is notably left-leaning.
As the 2012 presidential election drew nearer, Levin sent a series of letters to the IRS intensifying his campaign against predominantly conservative nonprofit groups...
Moreover, the IRS has also admitted [internally] that at least 75% of the targets were Conservative organizations, and only 5% were liberal.
Of the 199 (c)(4) cases, approximately 3/4 appear to be conservative leaning while fewer than 10 appear to be liberal/progressive leaning groups based solely on the name. The remainder do not obviously lean to either side of the political spectrum.
Wait a second...
The IG was wrong?
That’s their answer?
Un freaking believable.
Thanks for linking those. I thought I’d read about Levin and/or his office being involved in this mess. LOL!
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